Hidden Characters

You are not going crazy

“One, two, three, four, five, …, eleven, twelve. Twelve characters.” “So why does Excel len() function gives me 13?” “Maybe there’s a blank character at the front. Let’s try =left(cell, 1)…Hmmm, R.” “Maybe it’s at the end. Try =right(cell, 1)…An e, nope.” Normally, if you are working with a download from SAP, you will be dealing…

Data Breaches

Data Breaches – There’s an Awful Lot of ‘Em

There’s a lot of bad actors in this world. They range from the infantile teenagers to the truly malicious. The latest set of news are about the massive breach at JPMorgan, which, being a financial firm, would have one of the strongest set of security plans in place and yet, they’ve been hacked. This means just about everybody is…

Programming Logic
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Programming Logic

You know how programming logic can get gnarly? That happens when you need to make adjustments or additions to the program. Or you have a decision tree that is based upon time. I’ currently trying to write a program to save “beginning of the month” data to use for comparison purposes throughout the month without blowing…

Shareholder Value Means (Outsized CEO Pay)

People Just Don’t Know the Ratio Between CEO’s Pay and Average Worker

And so the drumbeat of articles continue. There has been a couple of interesting articles but I’m going to focus on the one about the psychological research on people’s viewpoint on CEO pay. This article came from HBR.org, through Pulse/LinkedIn, titled “CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World”, dated…